FEAR DOESN’T FEA­TURE IN HER DIC­TIO­NARY

DCP PCR, Monika Bhard­waj has taken up sev­eral com­pli­cated cases, and each one has left her with un­for­get­table lessons. “With ev­ery case, I have emerged stronger. It’s about hav­ing un­flinch­ing faith in one­self and one’s val­ues,” she says. Bhard­waj made head­lines for lead­ing a po­lice team that very quickly and ef­fi­ciently ap­pre­hended two ju­ve­niles who had kid­napped a three­year-old girl from a Ram­leela function in Ni­hal Vi­har and raped her. Bhard­waj was ear­lier posted in Pondicherry. The gritty of­fi­cer took an MLA head on and ar­rested some men who had al­legedly gang-raped a 21-year-old wo­man. The MLA had al­legedly doubted the rape sur­vivor’s char­ac­ter, and has gone to the ex­tent of la­belling her a sex worker.